Table of Contents

List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology; 1. Introduction: the future of eighteenth-century poetry John Sitter; 2. Couplets and conversation J. Paul Hunter; 3. Political passions Christine Gerrard; 4. Publishing and reading poetry Barbara M. Benedict; 5. The city in eighteenth-century poetry Brean Hammond; 6. 'Nature' poetry Tim Fulford; 7. Questions in poetics: why and how poetry matters John Sitter; 8. Eighteenth-century women poets and readers Claudia Thomas Kairoff; 9. Creating a national poetry: the tradition of Spenser and Milton David Fairer; 10. The return to the ode Ralph Cohen; 11. A poetry of absence David B. Morris; 12. The poetry of sensibility Patricia Meyer Spacks; 13. 'Pre-Romanticism' and the ends of eighteenth-century poetry Jennifer Keith; Index.

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This book analyzes major premises and practices of eighteenth-century English poets.

Reviews

"The essays in this volume provides useful and accessible background material for students of 18th-century poetry...Recommanded for all academic collections, undergraduate and graduate." CHOICE Jan 2002